PC, Dwight drop contests; Lexington plays to tie

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Apr 6, 2013 at 1:33 AMApr 6, 2013 at 1:36 AM

Area baseball

Purple is one color Prairie Central head coach Alan Dunahee would be happy not to see any time soon. For the second day in a row, a team clad in purple defeated the Hawks in a nonconference baseball game. Prairie Central lost a 14-2 decision to Manteno in a makeup game at PCHS. Starter Stuart Schopp took the loss after giving up 13 runs on 11 hits and four walks. Jordan Dunahee took over in the fifth inning and yielded the Panthers’ final tally. He walked one and gave up one hit. Manteno touched Schopp for four runs in the first inning. Dating back to Thursday’s loss to Lexington, it was the second straight inning PC yielded a four-run frame. The Panthers added another four-spot in the third before plating six in the fifth inning. Prairie Central scored its runs in the first and fourth frames. The Hawks managed just three hits as Devin Crews, Dunahee and Wenger each singled. Wenger also had a run batted in.Lexington 5, Eureka 5 EUREKA — Lexington followed up Thursday’s win over Prairie Central by tying Eureka in a 10-inning game called due to darkness. “This is a good team,” LHS head coach Dave Lingle said. “There’s a few more things we need to do to be a special team. We need to finish games.” The Minutemen fell behind 2-1 after two innings but rallied to tie it with a run in the top of the fourth inning. A Chase Payne sacrifice fly drove in Donavan Laible with the equalizer. Lexington did not trail the rest of the game. LHS took a 3-2 lead in the fifth when Ted Lingle scored on a Laible sacrifice fly. The problem the Minutemen faced was giving up a run after scoring a run. Lexington scored a run in the top of the seventh when Lingle came home on another Laible sacrifice fly. The Hornets tied in the bottom of the inning. LHS went up 5-4 in the eighth when Nate Jacobs scored on a two-out error. Eureka scored in the bottom of the inning. Neither team was able to score over the final two extra innings before darkness won out. Lexington had a chance to win it in regulation but a two-out error in the seventh allowed the Hornets to stay alive. Jacobs had three base hits and Payne added two safeties. Lingle, Tucker Lee, Jonny Meints, Henry Nettles and Tanner Tattini each singled.Coal City 10, Dwight 0 COAL CITY — Dwight’s Interstate Eight Conference opener didn’t go as head coach Ryan Kemp had hoped. The Trojans were whitewashed 10-0 by host Coal City. Carson Banks suffered the loss on the hill for the Trojans (3-4-1, 0-1). The Coalers tagged the senior right-hander for four runs in each of the first two innings. Coal City added two run in the third to complete the scoring. The Coalers had just five hits but DTHS made three errors. Banks had two base hits and Austin Gantzert and Jake Wardell each had a single for Dwight’s safeties.

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